'The Last King of Scotland' by Giles Foden

Pages: 345
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I picked this one at a second-hand books store. The discount was really good and quite honestly, among all the books, this was the only title that I had heard of.

The book is an account of the Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan who is appointed as the personal physician of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. The book recounts his journey from being a general doctor to that of being a close confidante of Idi Amin. The doctor gets a close encounter with the lives of people...